Beatriz Martínez Rojas is a dedicated researcher with a PhD in Biotechnology from the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, completed in February 2024. She holds a Master's Degree in Molecular, Cellular, and Genetic Biology Research from the Universitat de València (2018) and a Bachelor's Degree in Biochemistry from Universidad de Córdoba (2017). Beatriz has published one first-authored paper and 6 co-authored publications. Her second first-athored paper is currently under revision. She has undertaken international research stays at the University of Copenhagen and Imperial College London. Her academic contributions include the supervision of an undergraduate thesis on neural regeneration and impartment of teaching seminars in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Culture. Additionally, she has attended numerous international conferences and completed several professional specialization courses. She has expertise in performing in vivo experiments using rodent models of spinal cord injury, optogenetics, behavioural analysis, histological processing, cell culture and molecular biology. Currently, She is a postdoctoral researcher of the Novel Approaches in Nervous System Regenerative Medicine lab at the ICVS (Braga, Portugal) where she is focused on engeneering the MSC secretome for CNS-targeting as a Spinal cord injury treatment.
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Personal identification

Full name
Beatriz Martínez Rojas

Citation names

  • Martinez-Rojas, Beatriz

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D610-F49E-9DFF
ORCID iD
0000-0001-7513-1396
Scopus Author Id
57219228224

Email addresses

  • B14132@uminho.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (+34) 617966376 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Avenida de liberdade ,219. Andar 4, casa 6, 4715-387, Braga, Braga, Portugal (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Degree Classification
2019/09/23 - 2024/02/02
Concluded
 PhD degree in Biotechnology (Doutoramento)
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Escuela Tecnica Superior del Medio Rural y Enologia, Spain
"Transcriptional Insights for Spinal Cord Injury and Neural Precursor Cell Therapy: Toward a Novel Optogenetics-Based Treatment for cAMP Neuronal Induction" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Cum Laudem
2017/09/01 - 2018/07/31
Concluded
 Master's Degree in Molecular, Cellular and Genetic Biology Research (Postgraduate Certificate)
Universitat de València - Campus Burjassot-Paterna, Spain
2013/09/01 - 2017/07/31
Concluded
 Bachelor in Biochemistry (Bachelor)
Universidad de Córdoba - Campus de Ciencias de la Salud, Spain

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/09/02 - Current Postdoc (Research) Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
Laboratório Associado ICVS 3B's, Portugal
2023/09/23 - 2024/02/02 Researcher (Research) Fundación de la Comunidad Valenciana Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, Spain
Fundación de la Comunidad Valenciana Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, Spain
2021/09/12 - 2021/12/23 Visiting Researcher (Research) Imperial College London, United Kingdom
2019/03/01 - 2019/09/23 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Fundación de la Comunidad Valenciana Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, Spain
2017/06/30 - 2017/08/30 Visiting Researcher (Research) IT-Universitet i København, Denmark
University of Copenhaguen, Denmark

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/09/30 - 2022/12/31 Estimulación optogenética y farmacológica de células madre neurales para el tratamiento de lesiones medulares.
ACIF/2019/120
PhD Student Fellow
Fundación de la Comunidad Valenciana Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, Spain
Concluded

Publications

Journal article
  1. Grillo-Risco, Ruben; Marta R Hidalgo; Martinez-Rojas, Beatriz; Victoria Moreno-Manzano; Francisco García-García. Corresponding author: Francisco García-García. "A comprehensive transcriptional reference for severity and progression in spinal cord injury reveals novel translational biomarker genes". J Transl Med (2025): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39905473/.
  2. Hingorani, Sonia; Paniagua Soriano, Guillem; Sanchez Huertas, Carlos; Villalba Riquelme, Eva Maria; Lopez Mocholi, Eric; Martinez Rojas, Beatriz; Alastrue Agudo, Ana; et al. "Transplantation of dorsal root ganglia overexpressing the NaChBac sodium channel improves locomotion after complete SCI". Molecular Therapy (2024): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/67487205/.
    10.1016/J.YMTHE.2024.03.038
  3. Irene Cuenca Ortolá; Beatriz Martínez Rojas; Victoria Moreno Manzano; Jorge Más-Estellés; Cristina Martínez Ramos. "Estrategia para la estimulacio´n ele´ctrica y magne´tica combinada de ce´lulas progenitoras neurales in vitro". Àgora de salut (2023): https://doi.org/10.6035/AgoraSalut.2023.9.12.
    10.6035/AgoraSalut.2023.9.12
  4. Martinez-Rojas, Beatriz; Giraldo, Esther; Grillo-Risco, Ruben; Hidalgo, Marta R.; Lopez-Mocholi, Eric; Alastrue-Agudo, Ana; Garcia-Garcia, Francisco; Moreno-Manzano, Victoria. "NPC transplantation rescues sci-driven cAMP/EPAC2 alterations, leading to neuroprotection and microglial modulation". Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (2022): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/53414584/.
    10.1007/S00018-022-04494-W
  5. Monreal-Trigo, Javier; Terres-Haro, Jose Manuel; Martinez-Rojas, Beatriz; Sanchez-Martin, Maria del Mar; Giraldo, Esther; Manzano, Victoria Moreno; Fillol, Miguel Alcaniz. "Optogenetic Stimulation Array for Confocal Microscopy Fast Transient Monitoring". IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (2022): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/59844610/.
    10.1109/TBCAS.2022.3226558
  6. Cuenca-Ortola, Irene; Martinez-Rojas, Beatriz; Moreno-Manzano, Victoria; Garcia Castello, Marcos; Monleon Pradas, Manuel; Martinez-Ramos, Cristina; Mas Estelles, Jorge. "A Strategy for Magnetic and Electric Stimulation to Enhance Proliferation and Differentiation of NPCs Seeded over PLA Electrospun Membranes". Biomedicines (2022): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/53958510/.
    10.3390/BIOMEDICINES10112736
  7. Giraldo, Esther; Palmero-Canton, David; Martinez-Rojas, Beatriz; Sanchez-Martin, Maria del Mar; Moreno-Manzano, Victoria. "Optogenetic Modulation of Neural Progenitor Cells Improves Neuroregenerative Potential". International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2021): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/35432096/.
    10.3390/IJMS22010365
  8. Giraldo, E.; Nebot, V. J.; Dordevic, S.; Requejo-Aguilar, R.; Alastrue-Agudo, A.; Zagorodko, O.; Arminan, A.; et al. "A rationally designed self-immolative linker enhances the synergism between a polymer-rock inhibitor conjugate and neural progenitor cells in the treatment of spinal cord injury". Biomaterials (2021): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/49478589/.
    10.1016/J.BIOMATERIALS.2021.121052
  9. Panach, Layla; Pertusa, Clara; Martinez-Rojas, Beatriz; Acebron, Alvaro; Mifsut, Damian; Tarin, Juan J.; Cano, Antonio; Angel Garcia-Perez, Miguel. "Comparative transcriptome analysis identifies CARM1 and DNMT3A as genes associated with osteoporosis". Scientific Reports (2020): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/35410680/.
    10.1038/S41598-020-72870-2

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/11 - Current Participation in the 20th edition of a scientific photography contest, Fotciencia
Call
 FotCiencia
2021/01/13 - Current Poster presentation at the SfN Global Connectome. A Virtual Event, entitled: 'Transcriptional study of the camp signaling after spinal cord injury (SCI). intervention of neural progenitor cell therapy in the restauration of the sci-induced pathway alterations.'
Conference
 SfN Global Connectome. A Virtual Event
Beijing Society for Neuroscience, China
2024/12/05 - 2024/12/06 ERA CHAIRS ANNUAL MEETING IMMUNOHUB & NCBIO
Conference
 At the Crossroads of Neuroscience & Immunology: Advances and Innovations
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2024/11/20 - 2024/11/21 Iberian Glial Networks Symposium
Symposium
 Iberian Glial Networks Symposium
Sociedad Española de Neurociencia, Spain
2022/03/20 - 2022/03/25 Poster presentation at the Gordon Conference on Central Nervous System Injury and Repair (Oxnard, California) 20-25/03/2022; entitled:'NPC transplantation rescues injury-driven alterations on camp pathway via EPAC2 resulting in neuroprotection and microglia modulation'
Conference
 Gordon Conference on Central Nervous System Injury and Repair
2022/03/19 - 2022/03/20 Poster presentation at the GRC Seminar on Central Nervous System (CNS) Injury and Repair, entitled: 'NPC transplantation rescues injury-driven alterations on camp pathway via EPAC2 resulting in neuroprotection and microglia modulation.'
Seminar
 GRC Seminar on Central Nervous System (CNS) Injury and Repair
2020/04/11 - 2020/06/11 Poster presented at the IV National congress of young researchers in biomedicine; entitled: ' Transcriptional study of the camp signaling after spinal cord injury (SCI). Intervention of neural progenitor cell therapy in the restauration of the sci-induced pathway alterations'
Congress
 IV National congress of young researchers in biomedicine
2019/12/13 - 2019/12/14 Poster presentation at 5th International Spinal Cord Repair – ISCORE 2019 entitled: 'Transcriptional profile analysis of the temporal response in a traumatic spinal cord injury: intervention of the ependymal cell transplantation'
Conference
 5th International Spinal Cord Repair – ISCORE 2019
International Step by Step Association, Netherlands
2019/04/24 - 2019/04/26 Poster participation at III National congress of young researchers in biomedicine, entitled: 'Transcriptional profile analysis of the temporal response in traumatic spinal cord injury: intervention of the ependymal cell transplantation'
Congress
 III National congress of young researchers in biomedicine

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2024 - Current Teaching seminars in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Polytechnic University of Valencia and at Seminar in the subject of Cell Culture, Catholic University of Valencia ,
2022 - 2022 Supervision of a final degree dissertation entitled 'Regeneration mechanisms associated with cAMP signaling and neural precursors after spinal cord injury.' Angela Molines